After yesterday's contentious congressional hearing with the CEO of TikTok, the future of the social platform in the US is far from certain.

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A recent piece in Insurance Business America asks whether employers are likely to follow suit in the wake of governments across the globe applying increased scrutiny and restrictions on employee use of the popular app.

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In many cases, TikTok users may not even be aware of the data they are sharing, which governments and businesses alike are keen to keep out of the hands of other potentially hostile actors like organized criminals and adversarial foreign players. 

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It remains to be seen at the moment whether the US government will institute some sort of outright ban let alone whether or not businesses will begin restricting access to the platform on company devices, but with over 1 billion users worldwide and more than 200 million downloads in the US alone, the scope on any such action is likely to be massive - as is the pushback that those restricting said access are likely to receive.

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You can check out that article here.